Auto Versioning in Visual Studio 2017 (.NET Core)

Question

I have spent the better part of a few hours trying to find a way to auto-increment versions in a .NETCoreApp 1.1 (Visual Studio 2017).

I know the the AssemblyInfo.cs

Answer 1

I think this Answer from @joelsand is the correct answer for setting version number for dotnet core running on VSTS

To add more information for this answer,

BUILD_BUILDNUMBER is actually a predefined variable.

It turns out there are 2 versions of predefined variable.

One is build.xxxx, the other is BUILD_XXXX.

You can only use Environment Variable Name in cproj.